websites, answered questions on live radio and TV shows and
was interviewed by USA Today.
“My favorite interviews usually involved teaching the
reporters a cheer from our show and having them perform it live
on air,” Corbeille says.
Gaylord College Dean Joe Foote and his wife, Jody, saw
Courtney in the show in 2012, and were able to go backstage
afterward for a tour of the theater.
“I was beyond happy when Dean Foote’s office contacted me
about wanting to see Bring It On, Corbeille said. “I relayed the
details, and next thing I knew, I was exchanging text messages
with the dean
of my college
about when and
where to meet
them after the
show. They really
enjoyed it, and
it made me feel
so special that
they took time
out of their busy
New York City
trip to support a
former student.
The Footes also
hosted a young
alumni dinner
for several of
us in [New
York], which
also showed us
how much they
valued us as journalism school graduates!”
One of the most important aspects of Gaylord College is that
students can use their majors in multifaceted ways, and Corbeille
is one of many examples. She never dreamed she could be on
Broadway.
“Courtney is so representative of the kind of person who
stands out because of her particular skills,” Dean Foote says.
“Her attitude and being an Ambassador gave her a tremendous
bump in confidence, and she launched right into a musical
audition and was successful. The day I saw her was the night
before she was in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
performing on national television, and she was just here at OU a
couple of years ago. It’s remarkable.”
Corbeille also met and conversed with many celebrities
who came to the show during the tour and on Broadway. Her
favorites include President George H.W. Bush, Tyra Banks,
Kristin Chenoweth, Rosie O’Donnell, Harrison Ford and Paula
Abdul.
“I feel accomplished but I know that Broadway will not be
my peak,” Corbeille says. “I may not have a more fame-worthy
or glamorous profession, but I do hope to keep moving upward
in my career path. I am excited to be able to go back to my
journalism roots and hopefully put those skills to use in the near
future. Before Broadway, I wanted to cover sports exclusively,
but with my national travel and entertainment experience, I am
hoping to expand my journalism vocabulary to include coverage
of entertainment, lifestyle, leisure, food, culture and travel!”

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exactly what is protected by it. In short, you lose your Fourth
Amendment protection when you relinquish your own private
information to a third party. Amazingly, as was discussed, the
police are immune to many protections against third-party
violations. The police are allowed to invade our privacy as long as
they don’t invade personal space.
Morozov spoke about how technology has the ability to
influence our behavior, and not always to our liking.
“There is something that is happening in the macro-social
societal level that makes the problem of privacy very hard
to solve,” Morozov said. “And it has not so much to do with
government intrusion into our affairs. It has to do with the fact
that there are certain incentives now built into how we live and
how we interact with social and public institutions.”
Morozov also spoke about how sensors are being built into
so many items that we use, such as umbrellas that tell us when
it will rain, or shoes that alert us when they are wearing out. He
also mentioned a prototype for a smart trash bin, which has a
smartphone in its lid.
“The smartphone snaps a photo, uploads it to a site where
hundreds of people assess whether you’ve thrown something
away according to the recycling rules or whether you have
violated [them],” he said. “Then the photos are uploaded to
Facebook and all your friends know what you have just done.
So it’s possible for designers to influence what you do and to
build new types of peer pressure. So you would be forced or
incentivized to recycle because your friends can see what you are
doing.”
It is in this vein that Morozov feels privacy is being seriously
violated.
While the symposium was certainly considered an informative
discussion of privacy in the modern age, some darker conclusions
were drawn. The Internet is not a privacy safe zone. Indeed the
Internet is the No. 1 violator of our privacy, with Facebook
leading the charge.
“The reason Facebook is free is because [it has] found a way to
monetize your information, to take advantage of your privacy,”
Henderson said.
It seems that we are often giving away personal information
online that we do not realize will become public. College
students make up a large population of those who are unaware
that they’re essentially being robbed of their privacy.
“The thing that students care about the most is that the
Internet is free,” said Joe Foote, dean of Gaylord College.
“As long as it’s free, they’re happy. It may be free, but they’re
extracting your privacy. It’s an issue we need to be very vigilant
about. If students want to give away their privacy, that’s their
own business. But they at least ought to know that they’re doing
it.”
Privacy may seem like a thing of the past, but it’s up to each
of us to make it a part of our future.
Ryan Blackburn is an advertising alumnus from Norman, Okla.
He also is a diehard Boston Red Sox fan.

Haley Arias is a sophomore journalism major from Fort Worth,
Texas, who would love to work at a magazine in New York City.
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